Monthly Archives: April 2010

A publishing company that provided magazine advertising to a business, “California Closets,” cannot collect on the contract from an hourly employee who signed a personal guaranty that was part of the advertising contract, as the publishing company has not shown ...

An excavation company cannot use either the Virginia Public Procurement Act or defendant city’s own purchasing manual to establish the court’s jurisdiction for its challenge to the city’s decision not to award a contract on a particular project, and the ...

Medical tests raised the question of cancer as the diagnosis for a mass in a coal miner’s lungs, but additional tests also showed pneumoconiosis, and the 4th Circuit affirms the ALJ’s decision to award federal black lung benefits to the ...

Take a drive from Northern Virginia to Richmond and while you’re in Prince William County, you’ll no doubt see the brown sign that reads, “Weems-Botts Museum, Exit 152A.” Not much detail there, but the Weems-Botts Museum is a project maintained ...

Each day when we arrive to work we bring our unique skills, motivation and attitude. We also bring our stories, our personality, our family history, our habits and our relationships. These very things make up the fabric of an organization ...

A recent article in the journal “Science” demonstrated that people often make decisions without being consciously aware of their choices. Our research has shown a similar phenomenon among jurors. Some jurors make up their minds before the trial begins, without ...

One of the first questions Richmond personal injury attorney Courtney Van Winkle asks her clients is whether they are on any social networking sites. If the answer is yes, she gives this legal advice: Shut it down. Or at least ...

“Free Speech, Fair Speech, Fear Speech: Civil Discourse in a Volatile World” will be the topic of the third annual Law Day Conference at the Virginia Holocaust Museum on April 30. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and will ...

(AP Photo/Richmond Times Dispatch, Bob Brown) William C. Mims was formally invested today as the 100th person to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. “Just as they have all the other times I’ve appeared before the ...